And to be clear, the only acceptable amount of AI use in a creative context is none at all. A healthy creative environment should only have leadership actively discouraging AI use and supporting human creativity. But there’s probably a level of us people can ‘get away with’. This isn’t it

Vincke’s response here seems to deliberately blur the boundaries in this, too. People sometimes using AI to help with their PowerPoint presentations is not remotely the same as a game’s visuals being based on AI slop ‘concept art’

The wide range of acceptable approaches and harsh punishment for deviating from the word count screams ‘this isn’t worth much so you are being graded on effort’ to me and, as the student clearly didn’t try to properly execute the assignment, the 0 is reasonable.

Do we know what percentage of the final grade this was worth? The prompt reads to me more like a minor assignment meant to encourage engagement with course materials rather than a major assignment. In which case a 0 makes more sense and the conservative grift about this is even more absurd

It should go without saying that the disclosure of personal demographic information that was promised confidentiality to a government committee by the Tri-Council would be the most fundamental breach of ethics and pose a genuine danger to the safety of Canadian researchers.

Supporting a Toronto team is one of the most punishing things you can do in the world of athletics. But goddamn does city come together whenever that faith is rewarded

Also I really wish I was still living in Toronto tonight. I’m not a huge sports guy but I earnestly believe that Toronto sports fans are the best in world.

The Thing could be swapped for Christine, Black Christmas, or The Hitcher. The Wailing, Night of the Living Dead, and The Blair Witch Project are all probably up there, too.

For the record, I would’ve been there day 1 for Camp/Morian, V/Perkins, Spurrier/Campbell, and Tamaki/Valero-O’Connell Vertigo books if it weren’t for all this.